[KPhotoAlbum] Search for files by file/pathname

Robert Krawitz rlk at alum.mit.edu
Tue Sep 11 13:18:12 BST 2012


On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 22:51:04 +0300, Miika Turkia wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 3:04 AM, Robert Krawitz <rlk at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>> This patch allows searching for files by pattern (regexp).
>
> Thanks. This sure is something I have been wanting to have.
>
> Do you mind adding a "What's this?" thingy on it to describe about the
> feature? We have plenty of them under the settings but seem to be
> lacking them on the Search/Annotation dialog. I think some description
> about the field would be useful as it is probably not be as obvious as
> most of the other options.

OK, but I didn't see that on the other items of that dialog.

> Personally I would like to have this case insensitive (if choosing
> case sensitivity is not possible). Or even "intelligent"; if
> everything is lower case match case insensitively, otherwise case
> sensitive.

It's currently case-insensitive (there is an option).  I'd rather let
someone who knows a bit more about localization deal with that issue.

The Perl way of dealing with that would be to use a /i modifier.
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